Redemption of WWII

Chapter 76 Textbook Retreat

After the British Seventh Armored Division fired the second round of guns, what it met was not the raging flames of the enemy tanks being hit and exploding and burning. 【】On the contrary, they were fatally attacked by the German "tigers". Every time the German guns fired, nearly 30 British tanks became part of the burning on this burning battlefield.In just a few tens of seconds, the British Seventh Armored Division with less than 150 tanks had less than 60 tanks left.

The commander of the British Armored Seventh Division, 'Brian', suddenly realized at this time that the German 'No. [-]' tank that he had always believed in was not the real German No. [-] tank at all.It is a new type of tank that looks similar to the Panzer IV.

'Brian' felt cheated, like an innocent girl abandoned by a good-looking handsome guy. 'Brian' felt fooled, and at the same time felt deeply empowered that he couldn't fight after being fooled.

It's not just 'Brian' who thinks this way, all the officers and men of the Seventh Armored Division of the British Army think so.Yes, when a group of hungry wolves saw 40 delicious sheep wanting to eat, suddenly the sheep tore off their camouflage and turned into 40 ferocious tigers.No one can bear this contrast.

But that's how it is now, if you can't stand it, you have to let it go.If you don't want to die, you have to die.

'Brian' was convinced that if he continued to fight these German killers, his armored division would be wiped out.

Although 'Brian' regretted his adventure plan very much, he still had to persevere in front of his subordinates.

However, the precarious situation in front of him forced him to give the order to retreat. 'Brian' yelled on the line "All armored units quickly break out of contact with the Germans, retreat, retreat immediately." Then waved the driver in the command vehicle to retreat quickly.

The surviving tanker of the [-]th Armored Division of the British Army had already been beaten by the opposite 'Tiger' and put away his determination to avenge his comrades.Whether you can't beat it, or you really can't beat it, there is no falsehood.People's guns are cutting their own tanks one by one.And his own guns wiped off some paint on the German tanks at most.This is war, this is suicide.No tank commander of the British army was willing to give in like this, and the German tanks called themselves with guns one by one.

I really can't resist anymore, 36 counts, the best policy is to go.If I can't beat you, why don't I run away?These tank commanders of the British army had already made preparations to escape, and some tanks had already begun to retreat backwards.

Of course, the order of 'Brian' was unanimously executed by the remaining tankers of the British army.The 'Sherman M50', which can still run more than 4 vehicles in the UK, retreated to the rear one after another. This time, the retreat of the British Seventh Division did not crash and block the road like the British First Armored Division.Because all the tanks moved towards the rear in unison, none of the tanks showed any signs of stopping to block the German tanks.

But can the 88mm tank gun of the German "Tiger" tank escape so easily, obviously not.One after another, the guns hit the heads of the retreating British Seventh Armored Division accurately.

However, the continuous rapid shooting and adjusting the angle of the Tiger turret made the whole interior of the 'Tiger' full of the smell of burning rubber. This is caused by the heat of the hydraulic system seal when the turret rotates rapidly.

Even so, these tigers kept firing their cannons, accurately hitting the fleeing British tanks.In an instant, more than 30 British tanks were destroyed.

By this time, there were less than 4 British tanks still active on the battlefield.The last dozen or so 'Sherman m[-]' tankers of the British [-]th Armored Division found the tank to be a 'dangerous means of transport'.

"Come on, don't you specialize in tanks? We don't need tanks, can't we?" The tankers of the remaining dozen 'Sherman m4's of the British army climbed out of the tanks and ran for their lives on two legs. .And the last tanks of the British army were abandoned on the way to escape.The 'Sherman m4' tanks of the Seventh British Armored Division were completely wiped out.

These situations were all clearly understood by those 'Tiger' tank instructors.Until the British got out of those tanks and ran away on two legs.These tigers stopped shooting at the British tanks, and aimed their muzzles at the larger British armored vehicles.As a result, the 88mm guns continued to explode on British armored vehicles.

The British Seventh Armored Division originally had a team of nearly 300 armored vehicles.In the previous battle, more than 100 vehicles have been damaged by the "misfire" by the Germans, and now they have undergone another round of screening by the Germans.Only less than a hundred armored vehicles remained.

And the soldiers in the surviving armored vehicles—the Germans specially picked the armored vehicles to shoot them, and they were so accurate.She was so frightened that she said to herself, "Mom, my grandma, armored vehicles are too unsafe. Forget it, don't you specialize in armored vehicles? Why don't we stop sitting? Everyone's tank soldiers have changed to infantry. What are we infantry doing?" In this way, dozens of armored vehicles were abandoned on the road by the British army. The soldiers on the vehicles joined the ranks of those tanks and infantry running.

This time the German 'tigers' finally had no targets worthy of their hands.They all stopped shooting.But stopping shooting doesn't mean stopping shooting.Except for the 4 'Tigers' whose road wheels were broken and stopped in place, the other 36 'Tigers' all stepped on the clutch of the tank and put on the second gear.Unhurriedly chasing after the British army.To be honest, the current speed of these 'tigers' is really not particularly high, it's just roughly consistent with the speed of infantry.

The move of the German "Tiger" to chase really frightened the British officers and soldiers who were running wildly in front.So the officers and soldiers of the British army carried forward their consistent fine traditions and threw away everything on their bodies that hindered their rapid progress.The hand weapon is of course the first choice.

What, you said that weapons are the second life of soldiers and cannot be discarded.But what's the use of holding it, it's dead and heavy, and it's like a fire stick to deal with German tanks.Do we want us to poke those German tanks armed to the teeth with fire sticks?Go if you want, I support you mentally.

The heavy machine guns were dropped, as were the mortars.The light machine gun also weighs more than ten kilograms, and it is very difficult to hold it.No more submachine guns.Grenade?It's dangerous to run. What if the insurance is lost?The rifle was too long, and it got in the way when running, so I threw it away.

After abandoning everything that could lighten the burden, the British Seventh Armored Division finally became a light infantry.Not even the equipment of the infantry.Even 'Brian' ran out of the command vehicle, took his chief of staff, supported by the guards around him, and galloped the way he had come.But 'Brian' was quite embarrassed at this time, his hat was gone, the scepter in his hand that only nobles and marshal officers could hold had long since disappeared, and he even lost one of his shoes somehow.

Fortunately, the Germans did not chase after them too much, which made the officers and soldiers of the British Seventh Armored Division breathe a little.But soon they understood why.

I don't know when there was a large group of infantry behind the German tank's butt.But from the soldier's uniform, it is an Italian army.The officers and soldiers of the British Seventh Armored Division wondered when the Italians were chasing after their asses.

The book implies that, in fact, the Italian army has already started operations after receiving Rommel's order.Although the combat effectiveness of these Italian troops is outrageous, their high enthusiasm in the face of battle is still very admirable.Knowing that they were about to face an attack from a British armored division, Italian bravery rushed into the brains of these Italian soldiers again.

However, because of the Italian-style efficiency, these Italian troops, which were relatively close to here, arrived later than the German "Tiger" tanks.When the Italians went to Germany's "tigers" to beat the British army to pieces, the excitement dominated their brains at that time.Without the command of the officers at all, these Italian soldiers began to cooperate with the German tanks to carry out the final encirclement and suppression of the [-]th British Armored Division.It is also because of this that the "tigers" of the German army are also happy to have someone to deal with the British with "poor weapons".Thus saving oneself precious 'medicine'.

The British run really fast.After a large-scale "tiger" thinning, the British Seventh Armored Division now has less than 3000 people left.Or infantry, pure infantry.Trucks, armored vehicles, tanks, anything on wheels that would have misunderstood 'Tiger' was thrown out.Just to save my precious life.It really complied with the saying 'weapons are precious, but tanks are more expensive.If it is for life, both can be thrown away. '

Running fast is running fast. The officers and soldiers of the Seventh Armored Division of the British Army forgot one thing.

They forgot how they got here. The [-]th British Armored Division had to pay a great price to break through the defense lines of the two German regiments at the 'Fouquet' pass.Since the target of the battle was not the German infantry of these two regiments, 'Brian' did not completely wipe out the German troops who were still fighting on the defensive line.Now 'Brian' dug a hole for himself and jumped straight into it.

The brigade of the 2th Armored Division of the British Army was discovered by these German troops when they were two kilometers away from the defense lines of the two German infantry regiments.The German troops, who had recovered a little bit, suddenly felt as if they were facing a big enemy one by one.Just now, the German troops heard that the British army was advancing in the direction of shelling and explosions, and the movement was really lively.These remnants of the German army knew that other troops had joined the fire with the British.But what they didn't expect was that the British went fast and came back quickly, and they came back in less than [-] hours.

These German troops did not know that these British troops were defeated by the "Tiger" tanks, and the precise shooting of the "Tiger" forced them to discard all the vehicles.

The German infantry on the defense line became very angry when British infantry came.They all thought that the British looked down on themselves and regarded themselves as soft bastards who had no power to fight back, and just let the infantry break through their defenses.

Then wouldn't this place become a public toilet, you can enter as you want, and get out as you want.This simply hurt the self-esteem of the two German regiments, and they all vowed to let these British know how powerful they are.